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New Mexican (Newspaper) - October 2, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico COLLEGE FOOTBALL Sunday October 2 2005 THE NEW MEXICAN B3 Saturdays notables STARS Michael Bush Louisville ran for a careerhigh 204 yards and three touchdowns in the No 24 Cardinals 6110 rout of Florida Atlantic Bush was the first Cardinals player to top 200 yards rushing since Anthony Shelman had 220 in 1994 Dante Ross Bucknell ran for 268 yards and three touchdowns and threw for another score setting a school record for rushing yards by a quarterback and beating Marist 277 Drew Weather ford Florida State passed for 234 yards and three touchdowns ran for another score as the sixthranked Semi noles beat Syracuse 3814 Nick Hartigan Brown rushed for 252 yards and four touchdowns in the Bears 4535 victory over Rhode Island Hartigan moved into second place on Browns career rush j ing list with yards 43 shy of the school record set by Michael Malan from 1999 to 2001 Zac Taylor Nebraska threw 36of55for431 yards and two touchdowns set ting school records for completions and yards in a 2720 win I over No 23 Iowa State in double over j time Michael Jump La Salle threw for 325 yards and five touchdowns including a 25yard TD pass in double overtime to beat lona 3932 TOP OF THE HEAP USC rallied from 18 points down at the half to beat No 14 Arizona State 38 28 and break a Pac 10 and school record 1 for consecutive vic tories The Trojans won their 26th in a row with help from LenDale White and Reggie Bush who ran for a combined 355 yards and two scores each MENDED HART Mike Hart returned from an injury to run for 218 yards and a touch down in Michigans 3431 overtime win over No 11 Michigan State ROLLING TIDE No 5 Florida lost its first game under coach Urban Meyer a 313 rout by No 15 Alabama It was the Gators worst defeat since losing 367 to LSU in 2002 and ended Meyers per sonal 20game win ning streak at Utah and Florida OUTBURST Maryland avoided its first 03 start at home since 1993 catching No 19 Virginia by surprise with a multifaceted offense and win ning 4533 The Terrapins 570 yards in offense was the most allowed by the Cavaliers since Geor gia Tech got 627 in 2000 BLANKED WiHiams set an NCAA Divi sion III record with 278 yards on punt returns including touchdowns of 86 and 80 yards as Mary HardinBaylor beat Mississippi Col lege 610 Williams who also had a TD reception broke the mark of 227 punt return yards by John Conroy of Otterbein in 2003 Associated Press Southern Californias LenDate Wite right rushed for 197 yards on 19 carries to lead the Trojans secondhalf charge in a 3828 win at Arizona State Matt York The Associated Press NMSU FOOTBALL Aggies pounded in WAG opener The Associated Press RUSTON La Matt Kubik threw for 174 yards and two touchdowns to lead Louisiana Tech to a 3414 win ROUNDUP Trojans march on For second straight week No 1 USC rallies in second half The Associated Press TEMPE Ariz The strength and speed of LenDale White and Reggie Bush lifted No 1 USC out of trouble on a sweltering Saturday in the desert White rushed for 197 yards in 19 attempts Bush gained 158 in 17 carries and the Trojans 40 20 Pac10 rallied from 18 points down at the half to beat No 14 Arizona State 3828 No 2 Texas 51 Missouri 20 In Columbia Vince Young ran for 108 yards and a touch down and threw for two other scores and Texas Big 12 converted three turnovers by Mis souri quarterback Brad Smith into touchdowns No 3 Virginia Tech 34 West Virginia 17 In Morgantown W Marcus Vick threw for two touchdowns and ran for another and Virginia Tech 50 converted two West Virginia turnovers into scores in the finale of a 33year series between the former Big East rivals No 4 LSU 37 Miss State 7 In Starkville an efficient JaMarcus Russell threw two touchdown passes to Dwayne Bowe and LSU SEC bounced back from a bitter defeat by routing Mississippi State No 15 Alabama 31 No 5 Florida 3 In Tuscaloosa Brodie Cro yle threw for three TDs including an 87yarder to Tyrone Prothro and a 65yarder to Keith Brown to help Alabama 50 30 SEC hand Florida 41 21 its first loss under coach Urban Meyer No 6 Florida St 38 Syracuse 14 In Tallahassee Drew Weatherford passed for 234 yards and three touchdowns including a 71yard swing pass to Lorenzo Booker and Florida State defeated Syracuse No 9 Miami 27 South Florida 7 In Miami Tyrone Moss matched a careerhigh with three touch downs and Miami 31 ended South Floridas hopes of springing a second straight upset No 10 Tennessee 27 Mississippi 10 In Knoxville Gerald Riggs ran for a touchdown and Jonathan Wade returned an interception for another score in the first quarter and Tennessee 31 21 SEC beat Mississippi for the 12th straight time Michigan 34 No 11 Michigan State 31 OT In East Lansing Mike Hart ran for 218 yards and a touchdown in his return from an injury and Garrett Rivas made up for missing a field goal in the final minute of regulation by kicking a 35yarder in overtime for Michi gan Big No 12 California 28 Arizona 0 In Berkeley Marshawn Lynch ran for 107 yards and a touchdown in his first game back from an injury No 13 Notre Dame 49 No 22 Purdue 28 In West Lafayette Brady Quinn passed for 440 yards and three touchdowns two to Jeff Samardzija and Notre Dame 41 handed Purdue 22 its worst loss in two years No 16 Texas Tech 3O Kansas 17 In Lubbock Texas Cody Hodges threw for 333 yards and a touch down and ran for another score to lead Texas Tech No 17 Wisconsin 41 Indiana 24 In Madison Brandon Wil liams caught two touchdown passes and returned a punt 63 yards for a score as Wisconsin 50 20 Big Ten defeated previ ously unbeaten Indiana Penn State 44 No 18 Minnesota 14 In State College Derrick Williams and Tony Hunt each rushed for two touchdowns while Penn States 50 20 Big Ten stifling defense held Laurence Maroney to a seasonlow 48 yards rushing Maryland 45 No 19 Virginia 33 In College Park Lance Ball ran for 163 yards and scored two fourthquarter touchdowns and Maryland amassed 570 yards in offense to hand Virginia its first defeat No 21 Boston College 38 Ball State O In Boston backup quarterback Matthew Ryan ran for a pair of firsthalf scores and threw a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter leading Boston College 41 over suspensionriddled Ball State Nebraska 27 No 23 Iowa State 2O 2OT In Lincoln Zac Taylor finished his record day with an 8yard touchdown pass to Cory Ross in the second overtime to give Nebraska Big 12 a victory over Iowa State No 24 Louisville 61 Florida Atlantic 10 In Louisville Michael Bush ran for a careerhigh 204 yards and Louisville spoiled Howard Schnellenbergers homecoming by handing Florida Atlantic the worst loss in its fiveyear history In Mountain West action North Carolina 31 Utah 17 in Chapel Hill Matt Baker threw two touchdown passes and Tommy Richardson made two key fumble recoveries in the fourth quarter for North Carolina The game turned on a pen alty late in the third quarter On a secondand12 at his own 32 Bakers pass for Jaworski Pollack was intercepted by Eric Weddle who returned it for a touchdown But Utah was called for roughing the passer and the momentum reversed in favor of North Carolina Wyoming 42 UNLV 17 In Laramie Jovpn Bouk night had seven catches for 116 yards and two touchdowns lead Wyoming The Cowboys 41 20 exe cuted one big scoring play after another while the Rebels 14 02 struggled wittrpenaities lecting 10 to lose 53 yards Wyoming had touchdown catches of 29 31 and 34 yards as well as an interception by Derrick Martin to score from 10 yards out La Tech 34 NMSU 14 over New Mexico State on Saturday night in the Aggies first game in the Western Ath letic Conference The Aggies 05 joined the WAC earlier this year after leav ing the Sun Belt Conference Tech 12 jumped out to a 240 halftime lead and New Mexico State didnt score until there was just left in the game The Aggies recovered the ball after an onside kick and running back Jeremiah Williams carried it in from nine yards away Backup quarterback Royal Gill hurled a 21yard touchdown pass to wideout Harris with 19 seconds remaining NMHU FOOTBALL Cowboys rope in first win The New Mexican It took six tries before New Mexico Highlands University finally got it right The Cowboys had dropped five straight games to open the 2005 football season but came up with a win in Alva on Saturday against Northwestern Oklahoma State The 2624 result at Ranger Field dropped the Rangers to 12 NWOS nearly spoiled High lands first win in the third quar ter though After heading into the locker room on the bottom end of a 2618 score quarterback DeMarko Jones carried the ball into the end zone from 6 yards out The extra point was no good but the TD still put the pressure on the Highlands defense It responded holding the Rangers scoreless for the final quarter The Cowboys didnt take con trol of the game until the second quarter scoring 17 points to grab the lead that the Rangers held at 119 after the first Sophomore Ronnie Simpson Highlands starting quarterback completed 22 passes in 42 attempts for 185 yards and two touchdowns Highlands 26 NW OK St 24 Lobos UNM comes back to tie game at 28 before slipping Continued from Page 81 to tie the game at 28 with left in the third quarter The Lobos then forced TCU to punt and after UNMs ensuing drive stalled the Lobos attempted a 51yard Kenny Byrd field goal that missed wide right That was the end of the come back I really appreciated the heart and effort they put in fighting themselves back into the ball UNM head coach Rocky Long said We went for the long field goal and didnt get it then blew two assignments on defense that ended up being big plays Once we fought back in the ballgame I thought we were going to So did the small red vein of UNM fans who arose in the stands as soon as the Lobos did on the field But four plays later on fourth andone TCU went for it and backup quarterback JefFBallard threw as he was hit to a wide open Chad Andrus Tor a 38yard touchdown Two UNM defenders bit on the inside allowing the 6foot4 tight end to sneak by and make the catch that put TCU up 3528 After the Lobos were forced to punt Ballard on the very next play ran a quarterback sneak left 56 yards for another touchdown for 4228 with left in the third quarter Ballard replacing injured start ing quarterback Tye Gunn had a night football players only dream about He did a really good Long said He had it pretty easy early on Its really easy to hand the ball off from the 6yard line and its real easy to fake it in there and run the naked bootleg and take it in from the 7 But he made a couple of bigtime plays late in the Easy or not Ballard ran nine times for 79 yards and four touch downs and completed 16 of 28 passes for 192 yards and two touchdowns in his first career start Ballard a 61 junior also engi neered a quickstrike TCU offense that had three oneplay scoring drives and four touchdowns in 10 seconds or less of possession time Two of those oneplay scores came in the first quarter when UNM committed three of its six turnovers and fell behind 280 On the very first play of the game McKamey the junior quar terback threw a deep ball that was intercepted by TCUs Quincy Butler and returned 41yards to set up an 8yard touchdown run by tailback Robert Merrill The Horned Frogs 41 overall 30 Mountain West scored touch downs on four of their first seven possessions and turned the three New Mexico firstquarter turn overs two McKamey picks and a Moore rumble touch downs I hate to admit that Ive been around that kind of stuff several times in my coaching Long said Sometimes thats just the way it goes Sometimes things dont go your way and the ball starts rolling their way and theres not much you can do about it Obviously we made a couple bad throws that turned the ball over inside our 10yard line and youre not going to stop them inside your 10 very TCUs average starting field position in the first quarter was the New Mexico 36 But the Lobos recov ered in the second quarter get ting a 3yard TD from tailback DonTrell Moore to cap an 80yard drive and a 6yard score on a pass from McKamey to Hank Baskett Moore had a careerhigh nine catches for 99 yards includ ing a 41yard touchdown across the middle that tied the game at 28 Moore a senior also rushed for 129 yards on 21 carries with two touchdowns to become the MWCs alltime leader in rushing touchdowns total touch downs 50 and points to surpass former BYU standout Luke Staley It also was Moores third consecutive 100yard rushing game But the big picture showed TCU outgain UNM 272175 in rushing and 464420 in overall yardage The offense had a lot of turn overs but the defense didnt play as well as we shouldve played to keep them out of the end UNM senior nose tackle Marcus Parker said We got ourselves in it but we didnt have enough to come back and to get a lead to where we couldve won the McKamey recovered from his two early interceptions he threw two in UNMs first three possessions of the game to go 25for43 for 245 yards and two touchdowns But the bad stat was the four interceptions Its one of those things where games like this test the true char acter of your McKamey said Down 28nothing you cant give up It looked pretty grim but we called a few plays executed and its all about passion and heart We came back and made a valiant effort but we cant make that many mistakes and expect to McKamey threw two more interceptions trying to make something happen in the fourth quarter You cant get outside the he said You cant make too much hap pen on your own I was trying to make big plays and when you get out of your offense mistakes are going to Just like the first time and just like the last time Contact Tommy Trujillo at 9863060 or ttrujillo@sfnewmexican.com